A palm of primacy will be gained by that most happy one who succeeds in reducing the
formative powers of the animal organisms to the
general forces or vital laws of a World's Entity.Carl Ernst von Baer (1828)

We can now already speak about a body as about a
mobile border between the future and the past,
about a shifted point which behaves as if being
permanently pushed by our past towards our futur.Henry Bergson (1896)

According to our viewpoint... out of an adequate
description of any momentary state of a living
system its transition to the next should inevitably follow.Alexander Gurwitsch (written in 1948-1950, published in 1991)